F Newsmagazine - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art, Culture, and Politics

Jason Foumberg

Ethereal work elicits a visceral response Dan Flavin at the MCA

Dan Flavin’s objects demand first and foremost that the viewer be physically present; the viewer’s body, subjected to tens of thousands of lumens, in turn becomes the subject of the artwork. The architecture of the MCA, especially the rounded barrel vaulting, turns everything into ritualized spaces of worship and devotion.

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